We have been born of God therefore we are totally unique. The goal of our lives is to fashion, by the leading of the Spirit, a dwelling place for God within the realities of daily experience. We are inspired by vision and the promises of God. The Spirit of God guides us - yet the dwelling that God seeks to establish requires our determination and commitment. That is what makes it complete.

The very nature of our existence is being transformed. The power of creativity that we have been granted from God is reflected within it. When we, by the power of Jesus Christ, transform our own will, and then undertake to transform our surroundings, God reveals His dwelling with man.

John 14:23 Jesus said: "If you love me, you will keep my words: and my Father will love you, and we will come unto you, and make our abode with you." God has always sought a dwelling place. Three realities are interlocked together: God, His Word and His people. All three are joined together.

All three are partly hidden, and partly revealed. As in the case of the Lord, so it is with His people and His Word, there are the apparent and conceivable attributes, and the hidden and inconceivable attributes.
What is conceivable of the Divine Being is that He creates and forms the universe and its creatures. Creating them from nothing, He constantly maintains their existence, as it is written:" all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things continue to exist." (Colossians 1:16-17)

David exclaimed in Psalms 104:24 - "O LORD, how many and varied are your works! In wisdom You have made them all: the earth is full of Your riches." We are a people who live in between.

We are partakers of the world to come and yet we have not as yet fully experienced, what we know to be the promise for those who seek transformation. We are finding a way to walk in this world - so that His life in us functions as our life.

We have chosen not to be conformed to this world: but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

There are two aspects to our walk. We allow His will to become our will, so that God may fulfill our will as though it were His will. And we set aside our will because of His will that He may set aside that which opposes His will in us. We experience victory in this world through identity with His will.

Setting aside your will because of His will describes the challenge of foregoing one's own desires in order to know His desire. "Seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;" (Matthew 6:33)

Making His will your will is about the formation of one's character so that it reflects and expresses God's will. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10)

Through faith we find a way to relate to God who is infinite. Through faith we step beyond our own intellect and emotion, yet by serving and expressing God we can attain fulfillment in the realms of intellect and emotion. Through faith and works we are joined and relate to God from who flows both unlimited and limited expression of Himself.

Our transformation is God's way of revealing the breadth, depth, height, and scope of the finished work of Christ. It is very important that people like us reveal through themselves the essence of God's existence. Therefore we are pressing vigorously - more aggressively toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 11:3 "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things that are seen were not made of things that already existed." Since there was a time when the worlds did not exist, even now when it does exist, it exists only because God wills that it be.

He alone is true existence. That's why He is One, because nothing exists in the manner that He exists. In many ways God is hidden yet He intends to reveal Himself. "In His times He will show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who alone has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. (1Timothy 6:15-16)

God has hidden Himself and we are called and chosen to reveal Him. It is God's intention to fully reveal the truth so that all may see it He is doing that through us. In the consciousness of much of the world, the work of God and the plan of God are totally hidden. If God were truly revealed as the Creator of Heaven and Earth and the Savior of mankind the creation, would be drawn to God. Their actions would be an expression of that awareness. Every knee would bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. But that is not the case in the present.

Deuteronomy 4:35 "Unto you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD He is God; there is none else beside Him." What is implied is that together with Him, the world can enjoy true existence. We have been made co-workers with Christ. As we serve God and express Him by the Spirit it reveals the intent of God that brought into being every created thing. We show that the world does not exist for itself, but to become part of God's dwelling. God has dealt to each of us the measure of faith so that we might participate in manifesting the world to come. This is Gods intention. The world is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

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